, 1887-01-20
T%ELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Further Details of the London
Panic.
German Spies Arrested in
France.
A New York AstrolOger in
Trouble.
The London Panic.

LONDON, Jan. 19.-The hall in Princess
street to-day resembled a disordered auc
ton room. Broken furniture, crushed
toys, children's hats, broken bottles
orange peel, actors wigs and shreds of
clothing lie scattered over the floor. and
many blood spots are on the backs OF
chairs ard the floor. Here and there
CHASTITY knots of hair are c~llnging to the
furniture. Several escapes were made
through windows, most of which were
badly smashed. Bodies were found at
the bottom of the stone stairs leading
to the gallery. Here a terrible struggle
took place between the front of the crowd
rushing from the main floor, and the
throng which rushed down the gallery
stairs. The dead lay mostly in two OPP
posing rows, the feet of each row close to
those of the other; one row of heads lying
toward the gallery stairway, the other to-
ward the opposite side OF the hall. The
faces of the dead were distorted with
agonized expressions. The clothes were
completely torn from the bodies CT some.
A little girl, since identified as Eva
Marks. was found lying at the bottom of
of the pile of dead, her lower limbs bare,
and the upper part of the dress torn to
shreds, showing she had fought hard for
her life.
Isaac Levi. a venerable Hebrew, with
white flowing beard and hair, was found
among the dead. He and his wife were
regular attendants at the performance.
They always sat near the door. 1t is
thought from the position in which his
body was found that Levi, instead of flee
ing alone when the panic started, re-
manned to help protect his wife, so the
old man was brushed down by the rushing
crowd and stamped to death. His wife's
body lay opposite. She was a woman in
the prime of life, wore brightly colored
clothes and quantities of iewelry. Be-
side her lay a little boy whose knicker-
bockers and stockings were torn to
shreds.
A man named Harris Goldberg a he
went to the gallery of the hall, accom-
panied by his wife and family. They all
sat together. The play was a melodrama
called the Spanish Gypsy Girl During
the performance some boys, in order to
obtain a better view of the stage, climbed
up an exposed gas pipe fixed along the
wall. This was strained and started a
leak. Goldberg placed his handker-
chief over the leak. Someone shouted,
Turn off the metre This was raised
simultaneously with the cry ofalarm from
one of the actors on the stage. Then the
people in the gallery rose and rushed
headlong down the stairs. Goldberg's
wife was torn away from him and
trampied to death. His 6-year-old son
jumped on the heads of the packed mass
and escaped by running over them.
The managers were not to blame for
the disaster. The passage from the hall to
the street entrance is ten feet wide where
the struggle occurred. and the doors swing
both ways. There are several minor
exits from the gallery. The disaster arose
not from the %crowding of the passage,
but from the frantic efforts of the people
to force their way down the crowded
stairs. The men and women IN front
were driven headlong into the passage.
where they met the excited occupants of
the pit, and there was hopeless blockade.